[Zope] Crypt equivalent for Zope?

[Andy Dustman]

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:57, Alec Munro wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm storing users in Mysql, and doing custom authentication on them. I
> want to know if Zope has access to the crypt function, or if there is
> something equivalent that is preferred. Thanks.

I did some digging into this last night and discovered that Zope's
password authentication function recognizes LDAP-style password encoding
prefixes. For UNIX crypt password, use this in your SELECT:

SELECT ..., CONCAT('{CRYPT}', passwd) AS password ...

This is real easy to do with SimpleUserFolder (on zope.org). A couple Z
SQL Methods and you are done.

A couple other encodings are recognized (SHA, SHAA); see
AccessControl/AuthEncoding.py for more details. I believe it is possible
to add other encodings with your own products.

n.b. I thought that LDAP's password encoding names were either
lower-case or case-insensitive, but all the Zope encoding names are
upper-case.

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